Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) (Assured Guaranty) announced that Antonio (Tony) Ursano, Jr. has been elected to Assured Guaranty’s Board of Directors (Board) on May 2, 2025, bringing the total number of Board members to 10. He will serve on the Environmental and Social Responsibility, Finance and Risk Oversight committees.
“Mr. Ursano brings extensive experience in the insurance industry and investment banking business to the Assured Guaranty Board,” said Board Chair Francisco L. Borges. “He is a welcome addition to our membership, and I look forward to gaining his insights and working with him.”
In 2021, Mr. Ursano founded and began serving as managing partner of Insurance Advisory Partners, LLC, an insurance advisory firm that provides merger, acquisition, capital raising, and other advisory services to the insurance industry. Prior to founding Insurance Advisory Partners, Mr. Ursano was the Group Chief Financial Officer of Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd., where he also served on its board of directors.
“Assured Guaranty has benefited from Tony Ursano’s advice since we went public in 2004, including most recently through the insurance advisory firm that he founded and where he is the managing partner,” said Dominic Frederico, President and CEO. “Because he knows our company, our business and our markets so well, he will start making impactful contributions on day one.”
Previously, Mr. Ursano was President of TigerRisk Partners and CEO and Founder of TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory, after having served as Head of Corporate Development for Willis Group and Founder and CEO of Willis Capital Markets & Advisory. Earlier, he served for 10 years as the Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Banc of America Securities, where he then became its Vice Chairman.
“I’m honored to be elected to Assured Guaranty’s Board,” said Mr. Ursano. “It’s a company I have worked alongside for years and seen the strength and resilience of its business model as it grew into the unquestioned leader in its industry. Its financial guaranty products fill significant needs in today’s volatile markets, and it has the capital, credit skills and committed people to expand into new markets and products.”
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